ANTIOCH — Fred Belus casts his gaze skyward at a flock of racing pigeons circling above his backyard. Fit and sleek, they circle a few times before a distinct whistle from Belus brings his flock back ...
The pigeons could find their way home from hundreds of miles away, flying at 50 miles per hour. Van Gaver's birds, which he entered in national races, were among the best in Belgium. For a century, ...
RANST, Belgium — Belgium’s once pastoral pastime of pigeon racing has come to this: Drones swoop over lofts where valuable birds are housed to look for security weaknesses, laser sensors set off ...
In eastern Thailand, 5,000 pigeons brave predators and exhaustion in a gruelling sprint for a US$2 million purse Somewhere on ...
No one has figured out exactly how homing pigeons released hundreds of miles from home know how to get back to their roosts, but they do — and, with the benefit of countless generations of selective ...
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On a muddy berm on the edge of a wheat farm about 100 miles south of Baghdad, a dozen flatbed trucks carrying some $14 million in precious cargo slowly line up before dawn. At first light, men with ...
They flew the coop — and vanished into thin air. Bird handlers are devastated after a mind-boggling 5,000 homing pigeons seemingly disappeared during a race across the UK. “We’ve seen one of the very ...
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